Crime Prevention and Community Safety

This book provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe. The contributions to this volume present a critique of current policy and open up the field of study to new directions.

`This text represents a major contribution to the literature on crime prevention and community safety. It goes beyond existing literature in bringing together sophisticated theoretical analysis on these topics which are core issues for government at local as well as national levels. And it also brings a much needed international perspective to our understanding of the local governance of crime' - Kevin Stenson, Professor of Criminology, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

Crime Prevention and Community Safety provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe. Collectively the contributions to this volume present a critique of current policy and open up the field of study to new directions.

While engaging with the dominant focus on `what works' in crime reduction and community safety, the book also moves beyond the traditionally narrow, technical boundaries of much previous debate.

Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions looks at:

-The relationship between crime control, communities and the nation state;

-The diverse and changing sites of conflict, compromise and collusion around crime control policies;

-Wider issues relating to `risk', 'safety' and `security'.

The central feature of the volume as a whole is a commitment to exploring new directions for research and analysis, theoretically, empirically and comparatively. In opening up the varying and volatile spaces for crime prevention and community safety within the more general politics of social order, the book provides a critical rethinking of traditional connections between criminology, social policy and politics.

Crime Prevention and Community Safety will be essential reading for students of criminology, criminal justice, community safety, socio-legal studies, sociology of crime and deviance and social policy.

This is a course Reader for The Open University course D863 Community Safety, Crime Prevention and Social Control

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
Crime Prevention in Britain, 1975-2010 - Nick Tilley
Breaking out, Breaking in and Breaking down
The Road Taken - Tim Hope
Evaluation, Replication and Crime Reduction
Gendering Crime Prevention - Sandra Walklate
Exploring the Tensions between Policy and Process
The Crisis of the Social and the Political Materialization of Community Safety - Eugene McLaughlin
PART TWO: POLICIES, PRACTICES AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY UK
Community Safety and Policing - Tim Newburn
Some Implications of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships - Gordon Hughes
The Future of Community Safety?
A New Deal for Youth? - John Muncie
Early Intervention and Correctionalism
From Voluntary to Statutory Status - Coretta Phillips
Reflecting on the Experience of Three Partnerships Established under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Conflict, Crime Control and the `Re- Construction of State-Community Relations in Northern Ireland - Kieran McEvoy, Brian Gormally and Harry Mika
PART THREE: COMPARATIVE TRENDS AND FUTURES
The Growth of Crime Prevention in France as Contrasted with the English Experience - Adam Crawford
Some Thoughts on the Politics of Insecurity
The Managerialization of Crime Prevention and Community Safety - Trevor Bradley and Reece Walters
The New Zealand Experience
Towards a Replacement Discourse on Community Safety - Ren[ac]e van Swaaningen
Lessons from Holland
Drugs, Risks and Freedoms - Pat O Malley
Illicit Drug `Use and `Misuse under Neo-Liberal Governance
Boundary Harms - Davina Cooper
From Community Protection to a Politics of Value - The Case of the Jewish Eruv
Teetering on the Edge - Gordon Hughes, Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie
The Futures of Crime Control and Community Safety